A Conversation about Truth & Reconciliation
Resources on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools
The Mi'kmaq
- Aboriginal people in Nova Scotia
- Mi'kmaw resource guide (3.25 Mb pdf)
- We were not the savages: First Nations history, by Daniel N. Paul.
Residential Schools in Canada
- Justice for Aboriginal Peoples: It's Time (6 min.)
- Residential Schools - A Chronology
- Misconceptions of Canada's Indian Residential School System (1.94 Mb pdf)
- Stolen Children: Truth and Reconciliation
- Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools
- Shirley Flowers - Residential School Stories
- Statement of Apology - to former students of Indian Residential Schools (1.0 Mb pdf)
- Statement of Apology - to former students of Indian Residential Schools (11 min. video), also contains complete text of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's apology.
The Mi'kmaq and Residential Schools
- The evolution of Mi'kmaw education: Charting the challenges, the failures and the successes(3.46 Mb pdf)
- Twentieth century education for Native Americans: Residential schools